An article by William Maruca of FoxRothschild is headlined, “Ransomware Claims A Victim.” It discusses the case of Brookside ENT, whose doctors decided to shutter their practice and retire a year early after a ransomware attack that encrypted their patient data, billing information, scheduling information, and even their backups. In other words, the attacker successfully…
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Chipotle customers are saying their accounts have been hacked
Zack Whittaker reports: A stream of Chipotle customers have said their accounts have been hacked and are reporting fraudulent orders charged to their credit cards — sometimes totaling hundreds of dollars. Customers have posted on several Reddit threads complaining of account breaches and many more have tweeted at @ChipotleTweets to alert the fast food giant…
Update on Meditab breach
On March 19, this blog linked to a TechCrunch report about an improperly secured Meditab fax server that potentially allowed fax images with patient information to be accessed from an analytics portal. The exposure had been found by SpiderSilk, a cybersecurity firm in Dubai, who estimated that 6 million images were potentially accessible. The TechCrunch…
Accounting firm notifies clients affected by Citrix Shareful incident
In December, 2018, Citrix forced a password reset for some of its clients due to what appeared to be a credential stuffing attack against ShareFile. But did some customers first find out about it March? On April 16, external counsel for LD Evans, CPA provided notification that began; On March 4, 2019, LD Evans learned…
New Malicious Medical DICOM Image Files Cause HIPAA Headache
Sergiu Gatlan reports: Malicious DICOM files can be crafted to contain both CT and MRI scan imaging data and potentially dangerous PE executables, a process which can be used by threat actors to hide malware inside seemingly harmless files. Cylera’s Markel Picado Ortiz achieved this by taking advantage of a DICOM format design flaw which…
UT: Ransomware attack hits Garfield County, shutting off its computer access for weeks
Ben Winslow reports: A ransomware attack hit Garfield County’s computer systems, crippling them for weeks before they were able to pay to get access to their own data, officials confirmed to FOX 13. “All of our data had been taken,” Garfield County Attorney Barry Huntington said of the recent data breach. Someone clicked on a…